"opacity slider for Liquid Glass": Create bug, Solve bug, Call it a new feature.
Apple, Siri AI and the European Union https://brucelawson.co.uk/2026/apple-siri-ai-and-the-european-union/
Apple designed its wonderful new (fast! private! thinking of the children!) Siri AI in a way that it knew contravened the EU Digital Markets Act. Then asked the EU to let them do it anyway, pinky-promising that it would make it compliant after 18 months. Understandably sceptical, after 2 years […]
The only downer about the excellent Aldous Harding gig I went to see tonight was having to walk past about 20 fash having a Raise the Colours "demo", setting off red white and blue flares at the statue of Queen Victoria.
“The decision not to roll out Siri AI in the EU is Apple’s and Apple’s only… Instead of trying to find a suitable compliance solution, Apple simply made a request to the European Commission to be exempted from their interoperability obligations under the DMA – and this for at least 18 months […]